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Is The Conjuring Movie a Catholic Propaganda?

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Everyone’s talking about The Conjuring lately so I made an exception and…watched…
even though I’ve lessened my liking for horror movies.

The Conjuring Online- Official Trailer [HD]

I found myself wondering if it’s a big advertisement for Catholicism.

Why?

  • Mentioning the law about the Vatican not approving exorcisms on those who are not baptized yet – Are they encouraging baptism to viewers to avoid having/or lessen paranormal occurrences in their lives?  What gives them the authority to declare having certain requirements on saving people?
  • The scene where Ed Warren advised the father of the family to consider having a religion and be baptized when he revealed that his family weren’t into one – There are other religions around, what is the truth?
  • Using of crosses, rosaries, holy water, biblical scripture… – How could they depend on man-made symbols to have holy powers and not the source itself
  • The end text before the credits about “Demons exists, God exists…even til this day”

The Conjuring Story

The ol’ happy family moves into an old house and uncover things and evil spirits left behind… Who you gonna call! Demonologists!

Anyway how did I find the movie?

  • I liked how the director played with the viewer’s expectation on the early part of the movie to be scared yet there were no paranormal elements revealed yet. Although as the story progressed, it was a scary fest til the end.
  • Scare scale – High. Possible anticipated imagination in the dark after the movie. If you do not like that ‘after movie scare’ feeling then it’s better to skip this. Though you’ll get over it the next day or two.

Ideas and thoughts after…

  • A bit confused with the intro when ‘demonologists’ gave the fact that ‘demons’ can’t possess things, only living beings if they allow the spirits to communicate and be involved in their lives. The things come to life because of the demon’s power in the person’s mind.
    • If by this revealed fact that spirits can’t live in things, then why they still had a cursed artifact museum and reasoned that it was better to keep them locked up than destroy them risking the spirits to wander elsewhere. Won’t spirits be looking for other living beings and use the things around them anyway?
    • It made me realize something in life, we can be our own demons and may not know or admit it – possessed by hate, pride, greed, laziness, selfishness, idolatry, depression, anger, resentment, bitterness, lust and other things that take a big part of our lives that hurt ourselves and other people more.  But only if we allow them too.
    • After the exorcism ordeal, Lorraine said to Ed, “You did good” and I think he replied “You did good too” I’m not sure why I felt something wasn’t right. It was as if they took credit on their own efforts and didn’t acknowledge the source they believed in.
  • I hope the exorcism steps using wooden crosses, rosaries, claiming about ‘holy’ water, has a validated truth/history in it and not just man ‘created’ lies/stories.

Anyway, it is just a movie after all.  But the public doesn’t need another convincing stories that has no truth in them.

What are your thoughts about The Conjuring?

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Grace Tu